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Netscape Founder Backs New Browser
wirelessjb writes to share that after a resounding defeat at the hands of Microsoft in the first major browser war of the mid 1990s, Marc Andreessen is looking to have another go at the market by backing a new startup called "RockMelt." "Mr. Andreessen suggested the new browser would be different, saying that most other browsers had not kept pace with the evolution of the Web, which had grown from an array of static Web pages into a network of complex Web sites and applications. 'There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch,' Mr. Andreessen said.
RockMelt was co-founded by Eric Vishria and Tim Howes, both former executives at Opsware, a company that Mr. Andreessen co-founded and then sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2007 for about $1.6 billion. Mr. Howes also worked at Netscape with Mr. Andreessen."
... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death... Goodbye, Mr. Andreessen...
Marc: My name... is RockMelt!
I imagine Marc Andreessen has enough change in his sofa cushions to keep a startup going for decades.
You have a problem with authority, Mr. Andreessen. You believe that you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously you are mistaken. The intrawebz is one of the most totally awesome things in the world because every single browser understands that they are part of a whole. Thus if a blag has a problem, the tubes have a problem. The time has come to make a choice, Mr. Andreessen. Either you choose to respect the tubes from this day forth or you choose to find yourself another industry. Do I make myself clear?
AccountKiller
It'll have built in twitter and facebook access. Totally social networkitized
Tell me Mr. Andreessen, what good is a new browser, if you are unable to . . . ?
You know it makes sense, a little reminder from jointm1k.
or I am going to kick your ass!
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
No, it wasn't. Die seamonkey, Die!
Finally! I hate having to download all that spyware myself.
"Little else is known about RockMelt, and Mr. Vishria was unwilling to discuss it. "We are at very early stages of development," Mr. Vishria said. "Talking about it at this stage is not useful."
Good thing it was on Slashdot where nothing is useful.
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I just checked the date, I thought for sure it must be April 1st.
Marc Andreessen is jumping into the browser wars again? What's next, Ford announces a "re-imagined" Edsel?
Well, now I know which browser to avoid. Thanks for the warning!
There's no one out there making a good living by creating webpages that browsers can't display.
I thought that was the definition of an IE-centric web developer.
Someone has forgotten the first rule of Loudcloud.
Breakfast served all day!
So how bout you drop some of that wisdom on us Merlin, instead of just fucking telling us we are stupid.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Ha! So true! Those hidebound sheep, still using HTML (instead of XIEJD), tabs (instead of buckets), links (instead of jellybeans), history (instead of triple-reverse history), a physical mouse/keyboard interface (instead of magnetic-induction frontal-cortex implants). In windows (instead of architectural glass blocks)! They really should get with the times.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
..we were doing all that "flying through strange landscapes of flying numbers and other weird futuristic landscapes" stuff in the 60s, and didn't even need the goggles!
Red wouldn't fade into the background if you could see it. Red is such a frightening color because it's the color of blood, so every time you see it, it looks like something's bleeding a little. It's horrifying really. Be glad you can't see it.
Wow, did you ever fail it hard.
On a scale of one to pwned, I'd say you scored "Grandma just found your collection of erotic furry fanfics, and she's not mad... she's intrigued."
No, that's German for, 'The Seamonkey, The.'
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.